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The piece gained a reputation for being too difficult and demanding, so Vaughan Williams reworked the piece for two pianos with the assistance of Joseph Cooper. This revised edition premiered in 1946. The piece is difficult, and the piano parts are often percussive and dissonant. It is in three movements: Toccata: Allegro moderato; Romanza: Lento
The Piano Concerto in C is a concertante work by Ralph Vaughan Williams written in 1926 (movements 1 & 2) and 1930-31 (movement 3). During the intervening years, the composer completed Job: A Masque for Dancing and began work on his Fourth Symphony. The concerto shares some thematic characteristics with these works, as well as some of their ...
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The concerto has been generally praised by music critics. Michael Beek of BBC Music Magazine wrote, "That this second violin concerto feels somehow more youthful than the first is interesting, given the fact Williams was fast approaching 90 when he finished it. Its vigour can be put down to experience of course, a sense of having less to prove ...
Roger Williams (born Louis Jacob Weertz; October 1, 1924 – October 8, 2011) was an American popular music pianist.Described by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the most popular instrumentalists of the mid-20th century", and "the rare instrumental pop artist to strike a lasting commercial chord," Williams had 22 hit singles – including the chart-topping "Autumn Leaves" in 1955 and "Born ...
Piano Concerto, Op. 1 (destroyed, material partly used in the Piano Concerto No. 2) Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat, Op. 16 (1913) Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-flat, Op. 28, for left hand alone, written for Paul Wittgenstein (1924) Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Per Aspera ad Astra, Op. 32 (1927) Russian Rhapsody; Dmitry Bortniansky. Piano ...
Horn Concerto No. 2 (disambiguation), two concertos; Piano Concerto No. 2 (disambiguation), several concertos; Violin Concerto No. 2 (disambiguation), several concertos; Flute Concerto No. 2 (Mozart), an adaptation of the 1777 oboe concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Concerto for Orchestra No. 2 (Stucky), a 2003 concerto by Steven Stucky
Made the world premiere recording of the two-piano arrangement of Grieg's Concerto in A minor, written by Grieg and Károly Thern. Also the first recording of Grieg's piano version of the "Homage March" from Sigurd Jorsalfar. [12] They have recorded the piano duet version of Chopin's 2nd Piano Concerto in F minor (arr. Chopin and Carl Mikuli ...